On Tuesday, July 16th 1AM CEST (July 15th 4PM PDT, July 15th 7PM EDT), the IGS Server will be down for maintenance work starting. It should be back up one hour later, hopefully earlier.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

We will soon be starting a new cooperation with AI Sensei. AI Sensei is a website that offers online AI reviews of Go Games. Through this new cooperation Pandanet users will be able to upload their games directly to AI Sensei after finishing. Additionally, Pandanet users will be able log in and create an account with AI Sensei directly with their Pandanet account. The post-game upload process will be very simple, with an “Analyze with AI” button appearing inside the GoPanda2 software right after the game is complete.

We will be rolling out this new feature to all GoPanda2 users over the course of the next few weeks. The service is fully optional and will always be free in the base version.

We now restored the server without changing user passwords as there was no evidence that the server attacker compromised any other information. If you are concerned, please change your password yourself.

Sorry for your inconveniences!

Unfortunately, due to a problem with our mail server hosting, pandanet-igs.com didn’t send any registration mails.

We’re glad to inform you that everything is working again now. If you still have problems receiving registration mails, please check your spam folder. If there are further problems, you can write to support@pandanet-igs.com

We’re very sorry about the inconveniences!

Volume One of a Pair Go comic strip, “Gunbu no Pair Go,” which has been serialized in the monthly magazine “Action”, has been published.
The Japan Pair Go Association has extended cooperation and professional player Fujisawa Rina has acted as editorial supervisor.
There are plans to translate and publish the comic book in English (and other languages).

The first instalment (in Japanese) can now be viewed free of charge!

Monthly Action Homepage

Image Copyright© Takagi Yuuna / Futabasha

On the 5th/6th December, there will be a professional Pair Go tournament held in Tokyo. You can watch it live (in Japanese) on YouTube .

This year’s International Amateur Pair Go Championship will also take place at the same time. Unfortunately, due to the Corona pandemic, only pairs from Japan will be participating this time.

We will still broadcast many interesting games on Pandanet, so take a look if you’re interested!

More information is available at the IAPGC tournament website.

The 2020 European Pro Championship will be played online this year, on the Pandanet server.

The matches will be played in the European Champs Room on Pandanet.

Schedule

24th-27th September 2020

Rounds start at 11:00 and 17:00 (UTC+2 / CEST). Last round is 11:00 on Sept 27th.

Live stream

The event will also be streamed on the EuropeanGoFederaton twitch channel, with four commentators:

• Antti Törmänen, 1p (Finland/Japan)
• Cornel Burzo, 6d (Romania)
• Lukas Krämer, 6d (Germany)
• Viktor Lin, 6d (Austria)

Players

• Ilya Shikshin, 3p (Russia)
• Alexandr Dinerchteyn, 3p (Russia)
• Artem Kachanovskyi, 2p (Ukraine)
• Mateusz Surma, 2p (Poland)
• Ali Jabarin, 2p (Israel)
• Pavol Lisy, 2p (Slovakia)
• Andrii Kravets, 1p (Ukraine)
• Tanguy Le Calvé, 1p (France)

We are pleased to announce that the game archive server maintenance has been completed and the complete archive can be accessed again.

The online Pair Go event at the 2020 e-Go Congress will take place on Thursday, August 6 at 8 PM US Eastern time. Please have a look at the tournament website and the Bracket and pairings document for more information.

You must use the newest desktop/laptop version (2.7.4) of the GoPanda2 client released this week. To learn more about the tournament format, game setup, pairings and result submission, check out this tutorial prepared by Benjamin Teuber and Pair Go TD Andrew Zhang. If you are playing in the tournament, please arrive a few minutes before the start of Round 1 to expedite organization.

Both rounds of the top table (4 pairs) will be broadcasted on the official AGA Twitch channel with live commentary provided by Yoonyoung Kim 8p. You may also check out other interesting matchups on other tables!

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Motoki Noguchi 6-dan Grenoble go club, France
Pandanet ID: MotokiN

Cornel Burzo 7-dan from Baia Mare in northern Romania
Pandanet ID: Cornel

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16 pairs of male and female professional Go players who represent the Japanese Go world will play tournament games, and in the 4th round, the winning pair will be decided. Games from the 1st round to the 1st round will be played at the Nihon Ki-in on February 8, and semifinal round to the final game will be played at the Nihon Ki-in on March 1.

Click here for details

Tournament Outline

Name： The 30th International Amateur Pair Go Championship
Date： December 7 (Sat) – 8 (Sun), 2019
Venue： Hotel Metropolitn Edmont (3-10-8 Iidabashi, Chiyodaku-ku, Tokyo)
Organizer： Japan Pair Go Association / The International Amateur Pair Go Championship Executive Committee

Click here for details

Tournament Outline

Date ： August 19th (Mon), 20th (Tue), 2019
Venue ： Cerulean Tower Tokyu Hotel (26-1 Sakura-gaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo)
Organizer ： Japan Pair Go Association / World Pair Go Association / Pair Go World Championship 2019 Executive Committee

Click here for details

Tournament Outline

Organizer ： The Korea Baduk Association
Cooperation ： World Pair Go Association

Click here for details

Tournament Outline

Organizer: The 24th Pandanet Cup Internet World Amateur Go Tournament
Organiser: Pandanet Inc.
Sponsorship: The International Go Federation
Special cooperation: World Pair Go Association

Click here for details

Tournament Outline

Name : 2019 IMSA World Masters Championship [Pair Go]
Date/Venue : May 16-18, 2019 / Argyle Resort Hengshui (Hengshui City, Hebei Province, China)

Click here for details

Tournament Outline

Name： The 7th China-Korea-Japan Professional Pair Go Championship
Date： May 2 (Thu) – 3 (Fri), 2019
Venue： Anhui Province, China
Organizer： China Qiyuan, Anhui Province Sports Bureau, Hefei City People’s Government

Click here for details

16 pairs of male and female professional Go players who represent the Japanese Go world will play tournament games, and in the 4th round, the winning pair will be decided. Games from the 1st round to the semifinal round will be played at the Nihon Ki-in on February 9, and the final game will be played at the Nihon Ki-in on March 3.

March 3, 2019 (Sun.) Final

Tournament Outline

Name： The 29th International Amateur Pair Go Championship
Date： December 1 (Sat) – 2 (Sun), 2018
Venue： Hotel Metropolitn Edmont (3-10-8 Iidabashi, Chiyodaku-ku, Tokyo)
Organizer： Japan Pair Go Association / The International Amateur Pair Go Championship Executive Committee

Click here for details

This year’s European Go Congress was held in Pisa, Italy and it broke a record in number of participants as there were almost 1.500 players who took part in the events organized during july 27th and august 12th at Congress Palace.

Click here for details

Tournament Outline

Date ： August 20th (Mon), 21st (Tue), 2018
Venue ： Cerulean Tower Tokyu Hotel (26-1 Sakura-gaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo)
Organizer ： Japan Pair Go Association / World Pair Go Association / Pair Go World Championship 2018 Executive Committee

Click here for details

Pandanet is broadcasting two games per day from the European Go Congress in Pisa, Italy, July 31 – August 12. The games are starting at 10am CET. Welcome to watch!

Tournament Outline

Organizer ： The Korea Baduk Association
Cooperation ： World Pair Go Association

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Tournament Outline

Organizer: The 23rd Pandanet Cup Internet World Amateur Go Tournament
Organiser: Pandanet Inc.
Sponsorship: The International Go Federation
Special cooperation: World Pair Go Association

Click here for details

16 pairs of male and female professional Go players who represent the Japanese Go world will play tournament games, and in the 4th round, the winning pair will be decided. Games from the 1st round to the semifinal round will be played at the Nihon Ki-in on February 10, and the final game will be played at the Nihon Ki-in on March 4.

February 10, 2018 (Sat.) Round 1 – Semifinals

Tournament Outline

Name： Gurunavi Cup 39th World Amateur Go Championship in Tokyo
Date： May 4 (Fri) – 7 (Mon), 2018
Venue： Nihon Ki-in, Japan
Organizer： Nihon Ki-in
Main Sponsor： Gurunavi, Inc.

Click here for details

Tournament Outline

Name： The 6th China-Korea-Japan Professional Pair Go Championship
Date： May 3 (Thu) – 4 (Fri), 2018
Venue： Anhui Province, China
Organizer： China Qiyuan, Anhui Province Sports Bureau, Hefei City People’s Government

Click here for details

Tournament Outline

Name : The Final of the 22nd LG Cup Korean Daily Newspaper King of Go
Date : February 5th (Mon.) , 7th (Wed.) & 8th (Thu.), 2018
Venue : Nihon Ki-in Headquarters (Tokyo, Japan)

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Tournament Outline

Name : The 2nd IMSA Elite Mind Games [Pair Go]
Date/Venue : December14-15, 2017 / New Century Grand Hotel Huai’an (Jiangsu, China)

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Tournament Outline

Name： The 28th International Amateur Pair Go Championship
Date： December 2 (Sat) – 3 (Sun), 2017
Venue： Hotel Metropolitn Edmont (3-10-8 Iidabashi, Chiyodaku-ku, Tokyo)
Organizer： Japan Pair Go Association / The International Amateur Pair Go Championship Executive Committee

Click here for details

Tournament Outline

Name： The 5th China-Korea-Japan Professional Pair Go Championship
Date： November 1 (Wed) – 2 (Thu), 2017
Venue： Anhui Province, China
Organizer： China Qiyuan, Anhui Province Sports Bureau, Hefei City People’s Government

Click here for details

The video is to be uploaded at 10am o Oct 5 (Japan time)
The commentator is Michael Redmond. (in English)

Click to watch Youtube

The human pair (Yimin&Iyama and Yu&Ke) can discuss freely and we consider them as one person.
Their partner is DeepZenGo.

Please see this page for details.
http://www.pairgo.or.jp/pgwc/2017/ai/index_e.htm

We are pleased to announce that we are going to hold the 16th World Students Go Oza Championship from Feb 19 to Feb 23 in 2018 in Tokyo, Japan.

To select 16 students to proceed the championship in Tokyo, we are going to have preliminary round on the Internet.

University/College students under the age of 30 can participate in the preliminary rounds. We would like as many students as possible to participate in the Internet tournament using Pandanet-IGS.

The application deadline is Oct 16th.

Please, also let your young friends know about this tournament!

Thank you for your support in advance. If you have any questions, please send an email to world.sgo.oza@gmail.com.

Details and Entry Form

Pandanet is broadcasting weekly matches from Kansai Kiin.

Thursday September 7: The 61st Kansai Kiin Championship, 3rd game, Round 1, Yuki Satoshi Champion vs. Yo Seiki 7p

Wednesday September 6: The 44th Tengen title, Preliminary round A, Murakawa Daisuke 8p vs. Aragaki Syun 9p. Result: Murakawa Daisuke won, B+Resign.

Wednesday September 6: The 43rd Gosei title, Preliminary round A, Final, Sakai Hideyuki 8p vs. Seto Taiki 8p. Result: Seto Taiki won, B+2.5.

Previous results

How to watch

Tournament Outline

Name： Pair Go World Championship 2017 MASTERS MATCH
Date： October 5th (Thu), 2017
Venue： Cerulean Tower Tokyu Hotel （26-1 Sakura-gaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo）
Organizer： Japan Pair Go Association / World Pair Go Association /
Pair Go World Championship 2017 Executive Committee

Click here for details

The 42nd Meijin title is broadcast live on GoPanda2 client.

Champion is Takao Shinji Meijin. The challenger is Iyama Yuta Kisei. The match is best of seven games, so four wins are required to secure the title.

The Meijin tournament is organized by Asahi Newspaper Co., Ltd.

How to watch

Schedule

• The first game : August 30th (Wed) and 31st (Thu).
  Takao Shinji won, W+0.5.
• The second game: September 12th (Tue) and 13th (Wed).

• The third game: September 21st (Thu) and 22nd (Fri).

• The fourth game: October 2nd (Mon) and 3rd (Tue).

• The fifth game: October 16th (Mon) and 17th (Tue).

• The sixth game: October 23rd (Mon) and 24th (Tue).

• The seventh game: November 1st (Wed) and 2nd (Thu).

All rounds start at 09:00 (Japan Time), i.e., 02:00 CEST. The time limit is eight hours each.

Tournament Outline

Organizer: The 22nd Pandanet Cup Internet World Amateur Go Tournament
Organiser: Pandanet Inc.
Sponsorship: The International Go Federation
Special cooperation: World Pair Go Association

Click here for details

Tournament Outline

Date ： August 12th (Sat) -13th (Sun), 2017
Venue ： Cerulean Tower Tokyu Hotel （26-1 Sakura-gaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo）
Organizer ： Japan Pair Go Association / World Pair Go Association /
Pair Go World Championship 2017 Executive Committee

Click here for details

On Thursday, 13 July, the IGS Server has to be offline for maintenance work starting on 5pm UTC. It should be back up latest at 11pm UTC, hopefully earlier.

We are sorry for your inconveniences.

We are proud to announce the new Life & Death app by Pandanet:

Android
iPhone

You can use it to practise a nice collection of Life & Death problems. There are always new collections which you can purchase using the internal Panda Coins currency. The app also features Panda Sensei, an AI which can solve any custom Life & Death situation for you better than top pros! The position just has to be contained to a closed region.

Please try it out for sourself!

The 2017 edition of the WAGC was held in Sheraton Hotel in the city of Guiyang in southern China from June 4th till June 7th and it had 50 countries registered but only 48 competing for the World Go Champion title as Hungary and Madagascar didn’t make it to the event.

Click here for details

Tournament Outline

Pandanet is holding the Internet 13×13 Amateur World Go Championship. The winner in the Main class will earn the right to play a game with Hirofumi Ohashi 6-dan (13×13 Net game).

Organizer: Pandanet
Special cooperation: Kansai Kiin

Click here for details

The 72nd Honinbo title is broadcast live on GoPanda2 client.

Champion is Iyama Yuta Honinbo. The challenger is Motoki Katsuya 8p. The match is best of seven games, so four wins are required to secure the title.

The Honinbo tournament is organized by Mainichi Newspaper Co., Ltd.

• The first game : May 9th (Tue) and 10th (Wed). Iyama Yuta won, B+Resign

• The second game: May 23rd (Tue) and 24th (Wed). Iyama Yuta won, W+Resign

• The third game: June 8th (Thu) and 9th (Fri). Iyama Yuta won, B+Resign

• The fourth game: June 15th (Thu) and 16th (Fri). Iyama Yuta won, W+Resign

• The fifth game: June 28th (Wed) and 29th (Thu).

• The sixth game: July 5th (Wed) and 6th (Thu).

• The seventh game: July 11th (Tue) and 12th (Wed).

Iyama Yuta kept the Honinbo title!
All rounds starts at 09:00 (Japan Time), i.e., 02:00 CEST. The time limit is eight hours each.

Tournament Outline

Name: Future of Go Summit
Organizers: Google, The China Weiqi Association, Zhejiang Sports Bureau
Venue: Wuzhen, Zhejiang Province, China
Date: Tuesday, May 23 – Saturday, May 27
Contents: Three games(Ke Jie 9p vs AlphaGo), Pair Go, Team Go

Schedule *China Time (UTC+8):

Click here for details

Here is a nice video about the last European Go Congress and its Pair Go tournament:


The next Open European Pair Go Championship will be held at the EGC 2017 in Oberhof.

After beating the last year’s champions Shikshina/Shikshin in a dramatic game, Natalia Kovaleva and Dmitrij Surin are the European Pair Go Champions 2017 – congratulations! The second place goes to Zhau Pei and Lukas Krämer, followed by Svetlana Shikshina and Ilya Shikshin on the place three. Results and photos can be found at the tournament website

The 20th European Pair Go Championship will take place this weekend in Strasbourg, France. Title holders Svetlana Shikshina and Ilya Shikshin will face thirty pairs coming from fourteen different European countries. Games will be broadcast and analysed live on the server by Ali Jabarin 1p. The tournament starts on Saturday, April 1st at 11:00 C.E.T. Further informations at : http://pairgo.gostrasbourg.fr

The match for the 55th Judan title starts on March 7th.

Defending champion is Iyama Yuta Judan and challenger is Yu Zheng Qi 7p The match is best of five games, so three wins are required to secure the title.

How to watch

Schedule

• The 1st game: March 7 (Tue)
  Iyama Yuta won, B+Resign.
• The 2nd game: March 30 (Thu)
  Iyama Yuta won, W+Resign.
• The 3rd game: April 6 (Thu)
  Yu Zheng Qi won, W+Resign.
• The 4th game: April 21 (Fri)
  Iyama Yuta won, W+Resign.
• The 5th game: April 28 (Fri)

Iyama Yuta kept the Judan title!

Tournament Outline

Organizer : The 21st Pandanet Cup Internet World Amateur Go Tournament
Organiser : Pandanet Inc.
Sponsorship : The International Go Federation
Special cooperation : World Pair Go Association

Click here for details

16 pairs of male and female professional Go players who represent the Japanese Go world will play tournament games, and in the 4th round, the winning pair will be decided. Games from the 1st round to the semifinal round will be played at the Nihon Ki-in on February 12, and the final game will be played at the Nihon Ki-in on March 5.

March 5, 2017 (Sun) The Final

Round1 – Final : All Results are here

[ Explanation of Championship ]
A five-round Swiss System tournament will be played by 32 pairs, made up of 31 pairs representing 20 overseas countries and territories and eight regions of Japan and the winning pair in the Pandanet Qualifying Tournament held by the Internet Go Salon Pandanet.
The International Championship and Japan Championship are combined as the International Amateur Pair Go Championship, and the highest ranked Japanese pair will be crowned the Japan Amateur Pair Go Champion.

[ Prizes ]
First Place : IAPG CUP, Certificate, Medal, Prize
Second Place : Certificate, Medal, Prize
Third Place : Certificate, Medal, Prize
4th to 8th Place : Certificate, Prize
Best Japanese Pair : JAPG CUP, Medal, Prize

The match for the 64th Oza title starts on October 17th.

Defending champion is Iyama Yuta Oza. and challenger is Yu Zheng Qi 7p. The match is best of five games, so three wins are required to secure the title.

How to watch

Schedule

• The first game: October 17 (Mon).
  Iyama Yuta won, W+1.5.
• The second game: November 7 (Mon).
  Iyama Yuta won, B+Resign.
• The third game: November 18 (Fri).
  Iyama Yuta won, W+Resign.
• The fourth game: December 8 (Thu).

• The fifth game: December 15 (Thu).

All rounds start at 10:00 (Japan Time), i.e., 02:00 CEST. The time limit is three hours each.

Iyama Yuta Kept the Oza title!

The 41st Meijin title is broadcast live on GoPanda2 client.

Champion is Iyama Yuta Meijin. The challenger is Takao Shinji 9p. The match is best of seven games, so four wins are required to secure the title.

The Meijin tournament is organized by Asahi Newspaper Co., Ltd.

How to watch

Schedule

• The first game : August 30th (Tue) and 31th (Wed).
  Takao Shinji won, B+Resign.
• The second game: September 14th (Wed) and 15th (Thu).
  Takao Shinji won, W+Resign.
• The third game: September 20th (Tue) and 21st (Wed).
  Takao Shinji won, B+Resign.
• The fourth game: October 4th (Tue) and 5th (Wed).
  Iyama Yuta won, B+Resign.
• The fifth game: October 12th (Wed) and 13th (Thu).
  Iyama Yuta won, W+3.5.
• The sixth game: October 26th (Wed) and 27th (Thu).
  Iyama Yuta won, B+Resign.
• The seventh game: November 2nd (Wed) and 3rd (Thu).
  Takao Shinji won, W+2.5.

Takao Shinji Won the Meijin title!

All rounds start at 09:00 (Japan Time), i.e., 02:00 CEST. The time limit is eight hours each.

Tournament Outline

Organizer ： The Korea Baduk Association
Cooperation ： World Pair Go Association, The China Weiqi Association, Nihon Kiin, The Chinese

Click here for details

The 40th Gosei is being broadcast live on GoPanda2 client.

Defending champion is Iyama Yuta Gosei and challenger is Murakawa Daisuke 8p. The time limit is four hours each.

Schedule:

• The first game: June 25th (Fri). Iyama Yuta won, B+Resign.

• The second game: July 18th (Mon). Iyama Yuta won, W+Resign.

• The third game: July 28th (Thu). Iyama Yuta won, B+Resign.

• The fourth game: August 17th (Fri).

• The fifth game: August 24th (Sat).

Iyama Yuta kept the Gosei title!

St.Petersburg Finals July 22-23, 2016

The 6th edition of the Pandanet Go European Teams Championship was held online on Pandanet Go Server from September 2015 till May 2016 where 34 national teams competed in 3 leagues.

Each team consist of max. 12 players out of which 4 players are selected to play in each round.

The final stage of this tournament was held in Azimut Hotel, St. Petersburg, Russia on july 22nd and 23rd , the same location as the 60th Polymetal EGC this year.

http://egc2016.ru/en/venue/address

The top 4 teams of the A-league who played the finals this year were Russia, Ukraine, Romania and France who qualified after the 9 rounds played online in the preliminary stage of this event.

The time settings for the games played in the finals were same as in the preliminary rounds with 1hour main time and 10min/25 stones byo-yomi.

On the 1st round of this tournament played on july 22nd Russia defeated France 3-1 and Ukraine defeated Romania 4-0.

The results of the 2nd round played in the morning of july 23rd were Russia vs Romania 3-1 and France vs Ukraine 2-2.

In the 3rd round Ukraine won vs Russia 3-1 and France won vs Romania 3-1

All the games played in the European Teams Championship were held at the 18th floor of Azimut Hotel which offered a great panoramic view of St.Petersburg city .

The winners of this edition were Ukraine team , well done and see you again in the finals next season !

World Division-Preliminary

The Samsung Cup is a prestigious international Go competition held every year since 1996 and it’s one of the toughest Go tournaments as top class players from Korea, China , Japan , Taiwan and even amateurs can take part in the preliminary rounds and compete in the final stage to win attractive prizes of almost 300.000 us$ which makes it comparable with the major titles in Japan like Kisei, Honinbo and Meijin.

The official name of the tournament is The Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance World Masters Baduk.

The host of this big international event is Hankuk Kiwon ( Korean Baduk Association ) which is located in Seoul, S. Korea.

Usually the format of the Samsung Cup starts with a preliminary tournament where top pro players and top amateurs are invited to play in order to qualify for the last 32 players main event which is a Knock-Out tournament with best of 3 games played in the finals.

This year’s World Division preliminary rounds were held in S. Korea at Hankuk Kiwon from july 17 till july 20 and 1 player got the seat for the final stage of the tournament.

Among the 12 players who took part in the qualification there were 4 european players who joined as well: Ali Jabarin 1p from Israel, Pavol Lisy 1p from Slovakia, Mateusz Surma 1p from Poland and Cornel Burzo 6d from Romania.

All the games started at 1p.m ( local time in Seoul ) with 1 round/ day and time limits : main time 2 hours/ player and byo yomi 1min/5times

Only 8 players took part in the 1st round, including 3 of the Europeans.

The other 4 players got automatically seated in the 2nd round and played the winners from the first round .

1st round :

2nd round:

It was quite impressive that all 4 european players managed to get in the last 4 to compete for the seat in this Samsung Cup great event.

3rd round :

Final :

Congrats to the winner of this year’s World Division Ali Jabarin 1p and let’s hope he will make a great performance in the Samsung Cup tournament along with top pros like Ke Jie 9p, the winner of this big event in 2015.

The 71st Honinbo title is broadcast live on GoPanda2 client.

Champion is Iyama Yuta Honinbo. The challenger is Takao Shinji 9p. The match is best of seven games, so four wins are required to secure the title.

The Honinbo tournament is organized by Mainichi Newspaper Co., Ltd.

• The first game : May 9th (Mon) and 10th (Tue). Takao Shinji won, W+Resign

• The second game: May 23rd (Mon) and 24th (Tue). Iyama Yuta won, W+Resign

• The third game: June 2nd (Thu) and 3rd (Fri). Iyama Yuta won, B+Resign

• The fourth game: June 13th (Mon) and 14th (Tue). Iyama Yuta won, W+Resign

• The fifth game: June 29th (Wed) and 30th (Thu). Iyama Yuta won, B+Resign

• The sixth game: July 5th (Tue) and 6th (Wed).

• The seventh game: July 14th (Thu) and 15th (Fri).

Iyama Yuta kept the Honinbo title!

All rounds starts at 09:00 (Japan Time), i.e., 02:00 CEST. The time limit is eight hours each.

Tournament Outline

Date ： July 9th (Sat) -10th (Sun), 2016
Venue ： Shibuya Hikarie Hall
Organizer ： Japan Pair GO Association / World Pair Go Association /
　　　　　　Pair Go WorldCup 2016 Tokyo Executive Committee
Co-organizer ： its communications Inc.

Click here for details

Tournament Outline

Pandanet is holding the world’s first Internet 13×13 Amateur World Go Championship. The winners will be presented with splendid prizes.

Organizer ： Pandanet
Special cooperation ： Kansai Kiin

Click here for details

The 4th China-Korea-Japan Professional Pair Go Championship will take place from 27-28 April 2016 in Anhui Province, China China. Pandanet will make reports from the games.
WINNER : Chinese pair
( Yu Zhiying 5-dan & Tang Weixing 9-dan )

All Results are here

The match for the 54th Judan title starts on March 8th.

Defending champion is Ida Atsushi Judan and challenger is Iyama Yuta 9p. The match is best of five games, so three wins are required to secure the title.

How to watch

Schedule

• The 1st game: March 8 (Thu).
  Iyama Yuta won, W+Resign.
• The 2nd game: March 23 (Wed).
  Iyama Yuta won, B+Resign.
• The 3rd game: April 14 (Thu).
  Ida Atsushi won, B+Resign.
• The 4th game: April 20 (Wed).
  Iyama Yuta won, B+Resign.
• The 5th game: April 24 (Wed).

Iyama Yuta Won the Judan title!

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16 pairs of male and female professional Go players who represent the Japanese Go world will play tournament games, and in the 4th round, the winning pair will be decided. Games from the 1st round to the semifinal round will be played at the Nihon Ki-in, and there will be commentaries using a large demonstration board. The final game will be played in the studio of IGO & SHOGI CHANNEL and broadcast at a later date.

Round1 – Final : All Results are here

Tournament Outline

Name: Google DeepMind Challenge Match
Date：March 9-10,12-13、15
Venue：Four Seasons Hotel Seoul(Seoul, Korea)
Prize：$1,000,000
Start Time：4:00am～（GMT）
Time limit：2hour, 60 seconds, 3times.
Rules：Chinese rules

Click here for details

Tournament Outline

Name : The 1st IMSA Elite Mind Games [Pair Go]
Date/Venue : March2-3, 2016/New Century Grand Hotel Huai’an (Jiangsu, China)

Click here for details

Tournament Outline

Organizer : the 20th Pandanet Cup Internet World Amateur Go Tournament
Organiser : Pandanet Inc.
Sponsorship : The International Go Federation
Special cooperation : World Pair Go Association

Click here for details

Round1 – Final : All Results are here

[ Explanation of Championship ]
A five-round Swiss System tournament will be played by 32 pairs, made up of 31 pairs representing 20 overseas countries and territories and eight regions of Japan and the winning pair in the Pandanet Qualifying Tournament held by the Internet Go Salon Pandanet.

[ Prizes ]
First Place : IAPG CUP, Certificate, Medal, Prize
Second Place : Certificate, Medal, Prize
Third Place : Certificate, Medal, Prize
4th to 8th Place : Certificate, Prize
Best Japanese Pair : JAPG CUP, Medal, Prize

The match for the 63rd Oza title starts on October 20th.

Defending champion is Murakawa Daisuke Oza. and challenger is Iyama Yuta 9p. The match is best of five games, so three wins are required to secure the title.

How to watch

Schedule

• The first game: October 20 (Tue). Iyama Yuta won, B+0.5.

• The second game: November 12 (Thu). Iyama Yuta won, W+Resign.

• The third game: November 19 (Thu). Iyama Yuta won, B+Resign.

• The fourth game: December 3 (Thu).

• The fifth game: December 10 (Thu).

Iyama Yuta Won the Oza title!

All rounds start at 10:00 (Japan Time), i.e., 02:00 CEST. The time limit is three hours each.

The 40th Meijin title is broadcast live on GoPanda2 client.

Champion is Iyama Yuta Meijin. The challenger is Takao Shinji 9p. The match is best of seven games, so four wins are required to secure the title.

The Meijin tournament is organized by Asahi Newspaper Co., Ltd.

How to watch

Schedule

• The first game : September 3rd (Thu) and 4th (Fri). Iyama Yuta won, W+Resign.

• The second game: September 17th (Thu) and 18th (Fri). Iyama Yuta won, B+0.5

• The third game: September 24th (Thu) and 25th (Fri). Iyama Yuta won, W+Resign

• The fourth game: October 5th (Mon) and 6th (Tue). Iyama Yuta won, B+Resign.

• The fifth game: October 13th (Wed) and 14th (Thu).

• The sixth game: October 28th (Wed) and 29th (Thu).

• The seventh game: November 4th (Wed) and 5th (Thu).

Iyama Yuta kept the Meijin title!

All rounds start at 09:00 (Japan Time), i.e., 02:00 CEST. The time limit is eight hours each.

The 59th European Go Congress was held in Liberec, Cz. Republic a touristic city located in the north of the country close to the border with Germany and Poland and it was probably the biggest European Go event as it gathered more than 900 participants from 44 countries with over 700 players attending the main event.

For more details about the venue please see
http://www.egc2015.cz/venue

Like every Go Congress the European Go Championship was one of the most important tournaments organized here and this year EGF implemented a new system (http://www.egc2015.cz/rules/championship)to decide the winner of the European Go title who was Fan Hui 2p from France.
http://egc2015.cz/results/main/playoffs

Besides the European Go Championship there were many side events taking place in the 2 weeks of the Go Congress:
The Main tournament won by Wang Zheming 3p
http://egc2015.cz/results/mainwall

The Rapid tournament won by Chan,Yi-Tien 7d
http://egc2015.cz/results/rapidwall

The Lightning tournament won by Kim Young-Sam 7d
http://egc2015.cz/results/lightning/playoffs

The 9×9 tournament won by Chan Yi-Tien 7d
http://egc2015.cz/results/9×9/playoffs

Omikron Rengo European Championship won by Surma-Frejlak-Domanski
http://egc2015.cz/results/rengowall

The Beer Tournament won by Karaerkek Kerem 2d
http://egc2015.cz/results/beerwall

The Children tournament won by Mezin Savva 5kyu
http://egc2015.cz/results/childrenwall

The Ladies tournament won by Sun Sai 5d
http://egc2015.cz/results/ladieswall

The Weekend tournament won by Kim Young-Sam 7d
http://egc2015.cz/results/wallweek

The Pairgo tournament won by Gong/Qiu 5d
http://egc2015.cz/results/pairgo/playoffs

The Veterans tournament won by Mizuuchi Chihiro 4d
http://egc2015.cz/results/veteranswall

The Team tournament won by Ze?t Riddle
http://egc2015.cz/results/team/playoffs

13×13 tournament won by Sun Sai 3d
http://egc2015.cz/results/13×13/playoffs

Just before the European Go Congress the 5th edition of
Pandanet Go European Team Championship finals was held in Liberec as well on july 24-25th 2015
http://pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps/draw/46

The winner of the team championship this season was France

For photos about the congress you can visit the official site at
http://egc2015.cz/photos

Let’s hope all the players had a great time and good games during the stay in Liberec, Czech Republic and will look forward for the next European Go Congress. Till then see you online on Pandanet-IGS for training games.

The 40th Gosei is being broadcast live on GoPanda2 client.

Defending champion is Iyama Yuta Gosei and challenger is Yamashita Keigo 9p. The time limit is four hours each.

Schedule:

• The first game: June 26th (Fri). Iyama Yuta won, B+Resign.

• The second game: July 20th (Mon). Yamahita Keigo won, B+Resign.

• The third game: July 27th (Mon). Iyama Yuta won, B+1.5.

• The fourth game: August 7th (Fri). Iyama Yuta won, W+Resign.

• The fifth game: August 29th (Sat).

Iyama Yuta kept the Gosei title!

Tournament Outline

Organizer ： The Korea Baduk Association
Cooperation ： World Pair Go Association, The China Weiqi Association, Nihon Kiin, The Chinese

Click here for details

Due to a move of the web server there will be disruptions for some of the services on the web site.

The move will start on 9:30 CET on July 13th, and finish a couple of hours later.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Edit: The move is now finished. Please send an email to webmaster@pandanet-igs.com if you notice anything that is not working properly.

The 70th Honinbo title is broadcast live on GoPanda2 client.

Champion is Iyama Yuta Honinbo. The challenger is Yamashita Keigo 9p. The match is best of seven games, so four wins are required to secure the title.

The Honinbo tournament is organized by Mainichi Newspaper Co., Ltd..

• The first game : May 13th (Wed) and 14th (Thu). Iyama Yuta won, W+Resign

• The second game: May 25th (Mon) and 26th (Tue). Iyama Yuta won, B+Resign

• The third game: June 3rd (Wed) and 4th (Thu). Iyama Yuta won, W+Resign

• The fourth game: June 16th (Tue) and 17th (Wed). Yamashita Keigo won, W+Resign

• The fifth game: June 29th (Mon) and 30th (Tue). Iyama Yuta won, W+Resign

• The sixth game: July 7th (Tue) and 8th (Wed).

• The seventh game: July 14th (Tue) and 15th (Wed).

Iyama Yuta kept the Honinbo title!

All rounds starts at 09:00 (Japan Time), i.e., 02:00 CEST. The time limit is eight hours each.

Tournament Outline

Pandanet is holding the world’s first Internet 13×13 Amateur World Go Championship. The winners will be presented with splendid prizes.

Organizer ： Pandanet
Pandanet ： Kansai Kiin
Cooperation ： Kids 5, Go Quest

Click here for details

All Results

Tournament Outline

The 36th World Amateur Go Championship will take place from June 6 – 10, 2015 in Bangkok, Thailand.

Co-organizers ： The International Go Federation (IGF) / The Go Association of Thailand (GAT)Support ： The Korea Baduk Association (KBA)
Main Sponsor ： CP ALL PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED
Venue ： Montien Riverside Hotel, Bangkok

Tournament Schedule

June 6 (Sat) : Opening Ceremony
June 7 (Sun) : 1st Game / 2nd Game
June 8 (Mon) : 3rd Game / 4th Game
June 9 (Tue) : 5th Game / 6th Game
June 10 (Wed) : 7th Game / 8th Game / Award Ceremony

Click here for details

Click here for details

The match for the 53rd Judan title starts on March 5th.

Defending champion is Takao Shinji Judan and challenger is Ida Atsushi 8p. The match is best of five games, so three wins are required to secure the title.

How to watch

Schedule

• The 1st game: March 5 (Thu).
  Takao Shinji won, W+Resign.
• The 2nd game: March 26 (Thu).
  Ida Atsushi won, W+Resign.
• The 3rd game: April 9 (Thu).
  Ida Atsushi won, B+2.5.
• The 4th game: April 15 (Wed).
  Takao Shinji won, B+Resign.
• The 5th game: April 22 (Wed).
  Ida Atsushi won, B+Resign.

Won the “Judan” Ida Atsushi 8p

16 pairs of male and female professional Go players who represent the Japanese Go world will play tournament games, and in the 4th round, the winning pair will be decided. Games from the 1st round to the semifinal round will be played at the Nihon Ki-in, and there will be commentaries using a large demonstration board. The final game will be played in the studio of IGO & SHOGI CHANNEL and broadcast at a later date.

Round1 – Final : All Results are here

The match for the 27th Women’s Meijin Title starts on March 5th.

Defending champion is Shei Imin Women’s Meijin and challenger is Suzuki Ayumi 6p. The match is best of three games, so two wins are required to secure the title.

How to watch

Schedule

• The 1st game: March 4 (Wed).
  Shei Imin won, W+Resign.
• The 2nd game: March 11 (Wed).
  Shei Imin won, B+Resign.
• The 3rd game: March 18 (Mon).

Shei Imin kept the Women’s Meijin title!

All rounds starts at 9:30 (Japan Time), i.e., 2:30 CEST. The time limit is three hours each.

The 39th Meijin title is broadcast live on GoPanda2 client.

Champion is Iyama Yuta Meijin. The challenger is Kono Rin 9p. The match is best of seven games, so four wins are required to secure the title.

The Meijin tournament is organized by Asahi Newspaper Co., Ltd.

How to watch

Schedule

• The first game : September 4th (Thu) and 5th (Fri). Iyama Yuta won, W+Resign.

• The second game: September 18th (Thu) and 19th (Fri). Kono Rin won, W+Resign.

• The third game: September 25th (Thu) and 26th (Fri). Kono Rin won, B+Resign.

• The fourth game: October 6th (Mon) and 7th (Tue). Iyama Yuta won, B+Resign.

• The fifth game: October 15th (Wed) and 16th (Thu). Iyama Yuta won, W+Resign.

• The sixth game: October 29th (Wed) and 30th (Thu). Iyama Yuta won, B+3.5.

• The seventh game: November 5th (Wed) and 6th (Thu).

Iyama Yuta kept the Meijin title!

All rounds start at 09:00 (Japan Time), i.e., 02:00 CEST. The time limit is eight hours each.

The match for the 62nd Oza title starts on October 21nd.

Defending champion is Iyama Yuta Oza. and challenger is Murakawa Daisuke 7p. The match is best of five games, so three wins are required to secure the title.

How to watch

Schedule

• The first game: October 21 (Tue). Iyama Yuta won, B+0.5.

• The second game: November 18 (Tue). Murakawa Daisuke won, B+1.5.

• The third game: November 20 (Thu). Iyama Yuta won, B+2.5.

• The fourth game: December 8 (Mon). Murakawa Daisuke won, B+Resign.

• The fifth game: December 16 (Tue). Murakawa Daisuke won, W+1.5.

Murakawa Daisuke Won the Oza title!

All rounds start at 10:00 (Japan Time), i.e., 02:00 CEST. The time limit is three hours each.

All results

Round1 – Final : All Results are here

[ Explanation of Championship ]
Five-rounds of tournament style games will be played by 32 representative pairs from 21 overseas countries and territories, and 11 pairs selected from 8 domestic regions.
The International Championship and Japan Championship are combined as the International Amateur Pair Go Championship, and the highest ranked Japanese pair will be crowned the Japan Amateur Pair Go Champion.

[ Prizes ]
First Place : IAPG CUP, Certificate, Medal, Prize
Second Place : Certificate, Medal, Prize
Third Place : Certificate, Medal, Prize
4th to 8th Place : Certificate, Prize
Best Japanese Pair : JAPG CUP, Medal, Prize

The Go competition of the 4th SportAccord World Mind Games will take place from 11-17 December 2014 in Beijing, China. Pandanet will make reports from the games.

Date / Venue

December 11 (thu) – 17 (wed), 2014
Beijing International Convention Center

All Results

Two of the world’s top Go players – Lee Sedol 9p (Korea) and Gu Li 9p (China) – will be playing a jubango throughout 2014.
Both Lee and Gu were born in 1983, and became pros in 1995.
Pandanet is broadcasting live all 10 games !

Outline of Big Jubango

• Sponsor MLily will award the first player to win six games with 5 million RMB (approximately 820,000 USD).
• The other player will receive a consolation prize of 200,000 RMB (approximately 33,000 USD).
• If the score is tied 5-5, the prize will be split without a tie-breaker.
• The time allowance is hour hours, plus five minutes of thinking time, to be used in one-minute units. minutes.

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• Gu Li strikes back: Gu Li vs Lee Sedol jubango – Game 3
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• Lee Sedol gets off to a flying start: Gu Li vs Lee Sedol jubango
• The showdown of the decade starts this weekend: Gu Li vs Lee Sedol
• Lee Sedol vs Gu Li showdown scheduled for 2014 – MLily Gu vs Lee Jubango
• Lee Sedol and Gu Li 10 game match looking likely
• Lee Sedol’s imminent retirement and move overseas

Results

Game 1: January 26, in Beijing – Lee Sedol B+R
Game 2: February 23, in Shanghai – Lee Sedol W+1.5
Game 3: March 30, in Chengdu, Sichuan – Gu Li W+R
Game 4: April 27, in Korea – Gu Li B+R
Game 5: May 25, in Shangri-La, Yunnan – Lee Sedol B+R
Game 6: July 27, in Liuan, Anhui – Lee Sedol W+R
Game 7: August 31, in Lhasa – Lee Sedol B+R
Game 8: September 28, in Chongqing – Lee Sedol W+2.5

Winner : Lee Sedol

The 39th Gosei is being broadcast live on GoPanda2 client.

Defending champion is Iyama Yuta Gosei and challenger is Kono Rin 9p. The time limit is four hours each.

Schedule:

• The first game: June 26th (Thu). Kono Rin won, B+Resign.

• The second game: July 20th (Sun). Iyama Yuta won, B+Resign.

• The third game: August 11th (Mon). Iyama Yuta won, W+Resign.

• The fourth game: August 25th (Mon). Kono Rin won, W+Resign.

• The fifth game: August 29rd (Fri). Iyama Yuta won, W+Resign.

Iyama Yuta kept the Gosei title!

The 58th European Go Congress (EGC) was held in Sibiu, Romania from July26th till August 9th.

The location chosen for this big European Go event was Ramada 4 star Hotel in the city center of Sibiu which is one of the most touristic cities in Romania and also a cultural center being designated as European Cultural Capital in 2007. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibiu

Almost 500 players and approx 25 professional from Japan, Korea China and Europe attended the EGC this year and made the main event a very tough competition . For a complete result list of the Open Championship see http://www.egc2014.com/rezultate/main.htm

With 6 wins and 4 losses scored in the main event I tied for 12th place which was quite a decent result regarding the strong field of the tournament won by Yulin Tong 4p of China.

There were many side events taking place in the 2 weeks at EGC and most of them were won by strong amateurs or pro players from China as well, in the rapid tournament I managed to finish 5th overall and 3rd among europeans, see final standings here : http://www.egc2014.com/rezultate/rapid.htm

Another big side event during EGC was the Pair-Go Championship sponsored by World Pair Go Association and Japan Pair Go Association and gathered about 90 pairs who played in 2 groups, the even and handicap blocks.

I joined this event with my 1d partner Adelina Sora but we didn’t qualify in top 32 knock-out after losing 2 out of 3 games in groups against strong pairs consisting of pro players but it was a great learning experience. The final results : http://www.egc2014.com/rezultate/pair.htm

Playing EGC is not all about Go competition but also a good opportunity to make friends all over the world and have a good time in front of the goban or having a drink and a good chat to forget about the tournament pressure.
In hope for better results at EGC 2015 next year in Liberec, Cz Republic I am going to train harder replaying pro games and of course playing rated games on IGS-Pandanet.

The 69th Honinbo title is broadcast live on GoPanda2 client.

Champion is Iyama Yuta Honinbo. The challenger is Ida Atsushi 8p. The match is best of seven games, so four wins are required to secure the title.

The Honinbo tournament is organized by Mainichi Newspaper Co., Ltd..

• The first game : May 14th (Wed) and 15th (Thu). Iyama Yuta won, B+Resign

• The second game: May 25th (Sun) and 26th (Mon). Iyama Yuta won, W+Resign

• The third game: June 4th (Wed) and 5th (Thu). Iyama Yuta won, B+Resign

• The fourth game: June 18th (Wed) and 19th (Thu). Ida Atsushi won, B+Resign

• The fifth game: June 30th (Mon) and July 1st (Tue). Iyama Yuta won, B+Resign

• The sixth game: July 9th (Wed) and 10th (Thu).

• The seventh game: July 16th (Wed) and 17th (Thu).

Iyama Yuta kept the Honinbo title!

All rounds starts at 09:00 (Japan Time), i.e., 02:00 CEST. The time limit is eight hours each.

Pandanet will broadcast finals.

Winner : Li Chin Cheng B+R

Click here for details

The match for the 28th Tianyuan title starts on April 22th.

Defending champion is Chen Yaoye 9p and challenger is Ke Jie 4p. The match is best of three games, so two wins are required to secure the title!

Results

Game 1: April 22, in Tongli – Ke Jie W+R
Game 2: April 24, in Tongli – Chen Yaoye W+R
Game 3: April 25, in Tongli – Chen Yaoye W+R

Chen Yaoye kept the Tianyuan title!

The match for the 52nd Judan title starts on March 4th.

Defending champion is Yuki Satoshi Judan and challenger is Takao Shinji 9p. The match is best of five games, so three wins are required to secure the title.

How to watch

Schedule

• The 1st game: March 4 (Tue).
  Takao Shinji won, W+0.5.
• The 2nd game: March 27 (Thu).
  Yuki Satoshi won, W+0.5.
• The 3rd game: April 10 (Thu).
  Yuki Satoshi won, B+10.5.
• The 4th game: April 17 (Thu).
  Takao Shinji won, B+Resign.
• The 5th game: April 21 (Mon).
  Takao Shinji won, B+Resign.

Won the “Judan” Takao Shinji 9p

The match for the 26th Women’s Meijin Title starts on March 5th.

Defending champion is Shei Imin Women’s Meijin and challenger is Kato Keiko 6p. The match is best of three games, so two wins are required to secure the title.

How to watch

Schedule

• The 1st game: March 5 (Wed).
  Shei Imin won, B+Resign.
• The 2nd game: March 12 (Wed).
  Kato Keiko won, B+1.5.
• The 3rd game: March 24 (Mon).
  Shei Imin won, B+Resign.

Shei Imin kept the Women’s Meijin title!

The Go competition of the 3rd SportAccord World Mind Games will take place from 11-18 December 2013 in Beijing, China. Pandanet will make reports from the games.

Date / Venue

December 11 (wed) – 18 (wed), 2013
Beijing International Convention Center

All Results

The match for the 61st Oza title starts on October 24th.

Defending champion is Iyama Yuta Oza. and challenger is Cho U 9p. The match is best of five games, so three wins are required to secure the title.

How to watch

Schedule

• The first game: October 24 (Thu).
  Iyama Yuta won, W+Resign.

• The second game: November 19 (The).
  Iyama Yuta won, B+Resign.

• The third game: November 21 (Thu).
  Cho U won, B+Resign.

• The fourth game: December 2 (Mon).
  Iyama Yuta won, B+Resign.

• The fifth game: December 12 (The).

Iyama Yuta kept the Oza title!

All rounds starts at 10:00 (Japan Time), i.e., 02:00 CEST. The time limit is three hours each.

“Futian Cup” The 3rd Shenzhen International Pair Go Masters Tournament
will take place from November 24 – 26, 2013 in Shenzhen, China.

All results

Date / Venue

November 24 (Sun) – 26 (Tue), 2013
Shenzhen, China

Tournament Schedule

November 24（Sun）Opening Ceremony
November 25（Mon）Round 1
November 26（Tue）Round 2 & Closing Ceremony

Round1 – Final : All Results are here

[ Explanation of Championship ]
Five-rounds of tournament style games will be played by 32 representative pairs from 21 overseas countries and territories, and 11 pairs selected from 8 domestic regions.
The International Championship and Japan Championship are combined as the International Amateur Pair Go Championship, and the highest ranked Japanese pair will be crowned the Japan Amateur Pair Go Champion.

[ Prizes ]
First Place : IAPG CUP, Certificate, Medal, Prize
Second Place : Certificate, Medal, Prize
Third Place : Certificate, Medal, Prize
4th to 8th Place : Certificate, Prize
Best Japanese Pair : JAPG CUP, Medal, Prize

The 38th Meijin title is broadcast live on GoPanda2 client.

Champion is Yamashita Keigo Meijin. The challenger is Iyama Yuta Kisei. The match is best of seven games, so four wins are required to secure the title.

The Mijin tournament is organized by Asahi Newspaper Co., Ltd.

How to watch

Schedule

• The first game : September 5th (Thu) and 6th (Fri).
  Yamashita Keigo won, W+Resign.

• The second game: September 19th (Thu) and 20th (Fri).
  Iyama Yuta won, W+Resign.

• The third game: September 25th (Wed) and 26th (Thu).
  Iyama Yuta won, B+1.5.

• The fourth game: October 9th (Wed) and 10th (Thu).
  Iyama Yuta won, W+Resign.

• The fifth game: October 16th (Mon) and 17th (Tue).
  Iyama Yuta won, B+4.5.

Winner : Iyama Yuta Kisei

All rounds starts at 09:00 (Japan Time), i.e., 02:00 CEST. The time limit is eight hours each.

The 34th World Amateur Go Championship will take place from September 1 – 4, 2013 in Sendai, Miyagi.

All Results

Tournament Schedule

August 31 (Sat) : Opening Ceremony
September 1 (Sun) : 1st Game / 2nd Game
September 2 (Mon) : 3rd Game / 4th Game
September 3 (Tue) : 5th Game / 6th Game
September 4 (Wed) : 7th Game / 8th Game / Award Ceremony

The 38th Gosei is being broadcast live on GoPanda2 client.

Defending champion is Iyama Yuta Gosei and challenger is Kono Rin 9p. The time limit is four hours each.

Schedule:

• The first game: July 6th (Sat). Kono Rin won, B+Resign.

• The second game: July 22nd (Mon). Kono Rin won, W+Resign.

• The third game: July 26th (Fri). Iyama Yuta won, W+1.5.

• The fourth game: August 9th (Fri). Iyama Yuta won, B+Resign.

• The fifth game: August 23rd (Fri). Iyama Yuta won, W+2.5.
  

The 68th Honinbo title is broadcast live on GoPanda2 client.

Champion is Iyama Yuta Honinbo. The challenger is Takao Shinji 9p. The match is best of seven games, so four wins are required to secure the title.

The Honinbo tournament is organized by Mainichi Newspaper Co., Ltd..

• The first game : May 16th (Thu) and 17th (Fri). Iyama Yuta won, W+4.5.

• The second game: May 28th (Tue) and 29th (Wed). Takao Shinji won, W+Resign

• The third game: June 5th (Wed) and 6th (Thu). Takao Shinji won, B+Resign

• The fourth game: June 17th (Mon) and 18th (Tue). Iyama Yuta won, B+Resign

• The fifth game: June 24th (Mon) and 25th (Tue). Iyama Yuta won, W+Resign

• The sixth game: July 10th (Wed) and 11th (Thu). Takao Shinji won, W+Resign

• The seventh game: July 17th (Wed) and 18th (Thu). Iyama Yuta won, B+4.5

Winner : Iyama Yuta 9p

All rounds starts at 09:00 (Japan Time), i.e., 02:00 CEST. The time limit is eight hours each.

Cornel Burzo will be commenting the games live on GoPanda2.

Go competition of the 4th Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games Incheon 2013 will take place from June 29 – July 6, 2013 in Incheon, Korea.

All Results

Date / Venue

June 29 (Sat) – July 6 (Sat), 2013
Yonsei University International Campus, Incheon

official web site

Tournament Schedule

Men’s Individual : June 30 (Sun) – July 2 (Tue)

Pair Go : June 30 (Sun) – July 2 (Tue)

Men’s Team : July 3 (Wed) – July 5 (Fri)

On May 9-13, The Amsterdam Go Together 2013 event drew over one hundred go lovers to the capital of the Netherlands. The European Pair Go Championship as well as The International Amsterdam Go Tournament were played as a part of the event.

The level of the Pair Go Championship tournament was notably high this year, most of the 24 participating pairs having a dan ranking on average. The favorite pair for the win, the Russian siblings Shikshin and Shikshina, neatly succeeded in claiming the throne. Followed by them at the second place were Klara Zaloudkavova and Jan Hora from the Czech Republic. You can see the full results here.

A possible reason for the high number of strong participants was the prizes for the first two places: the winners received a seat for the International Amateur Pair Go Championship, and the runners-up a seat for the 3rd SportAccord World Mind Games.

The well-organized event drew praise from its participants, who are now already looking forward to its next installation. Written by Laura Avram

• WINNER : CHINA ( Wang 5-dan & Chang 9-dan )

All Results are here

The match for the 51st Judan is being broadcast live on Pandanet-IGS.

Defending champion is Iyama Yuta, Judan and challenger is Yuki Satoshi, 9d. The match is best of five games, so three wins are required to secure the title.

How to watch

Schedule

• The 1st game: March 6 (Wed). Iyama Yuta won, W+Resign.

• The 2nd game: March 28 (Thu). Yuki Satoshi won, W+2.5.

• The 3rd game: April 4 (Thu). Yuki Satoshi won, B+Resign.

• The 4th game: April 18 (Thu). Iyama Yuta won, B+Resign.

• The 5th game: April 26 (Fri). Yuki Satoshi won, W+1.5.

Won the “Judan” Yuki Satoshi 9d

All rounds starts at 10:00 (Japan Time), i.e., 03:00 CEST. The time limit is three hours each.

16 pairs of male and female professional Go players who represent the Japanese Go world will play tournament games, and in the 4th round, the winning pair will be decided. Games from the 1st round to the semifinal round will be played at the Nihon Ki-in, and there will be commentaries using a large demonstration board. The final game will be played in the studio of IGO & SHOGI CHANNEL and broadcast at a later date.

Round1 – Final : All Results are here

The 23rd version of this great event, a festival of international celebration of Pair Go, was held November 3 and 4, 2012 at the Hotel Metropolitan Edmont in Iidabashi, Tokyo. As has become standard, 21 international pairs and 11 Japanese regional pairs were included in the main tournament.

A separate, open handicap tournament, the Araki Cup, was simultaneously held for the general public.

More information

The match for the 60th Oza title starts on October 25th.

Defending champion is Cho U Oza and challenger is Iyama Yuta. The match is best of five games, so three wins are required to secure the title.

How to watch

Schedule

• The first game: October 25 (Thu).
  Iyama Yuta won, W+7.5.

• The second game: October 27 (Sat).
  Iyama Yuta won, B+Resign.

• The third game: November 22 (Thu).
  Iyama Yuta won, W+Resign.

Iyama Yuta got the Oza title with three straight win!

All rounds starts at 09:00 (Japan Time), i.e., 02:00 CEST. The time limit is three hours each.

The match for the 37th Meijin title is broadcast live on Pandanet-IGS, starting on August 30th.

Defending champion is Yamashita Keigo Meijin and challenger is Hane Naoki. The match is best of seven games, so four wins are required to secure the title.

How to watch

Schedule

• The first game: Aug 30 (Thu) and Aug 31 (Fri).
  Yamashita Keigo won, W+Resign.
• The second game: Sep 20 (Thu) and Sep 21 (Fri).
  Hane Naoki won, W+Resign.
• The third game: Sep 27 (Thu) and Sep 28 (Fri).
  Hane Naoki won, B+Resign.
• The forth game: Oct 10 (Wed) and Oct 11 (Thu).
  Yamashita Keigo won, B+Resign.
• The fifth game: Oct 17 (Wed) and Oct 18 (Thu).
  Yamashita Keigo won, W+Resign.
• The sixth game: Oct 31 (Wed) and Nov 1 (Thu).
  Hane Naoki won, W+Resign.
• The seventh game: Nov 12 (Mon) and Nov 13 (Tue).
  Yamashita Keigo won, W+Resign.

Yamashita Keigo kept the title!

All rounds starts at 09:00 (Japan Time), i.e., 02:00 CEST. The time limit is eight hours each.

Results

The winner of the 17th Internet World Amateur Go Tournament 2012 was RAICHUU (Japan) Congratulations!

Kifu (in ugi format) from the final game

More information

Prizes

Main Championship:

• First prize: JPY 100,000
• Second prize: JPY 30,000
• 3rd – 16th place: Prize

Ranked Championship:

• 1st – 8th place: Prize

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The second edition of the World Mind Sports Games will take place from 9-23 August 2012 in Lille, France.
Pandanet will make reports from the games.

Live Broadcasts

Go Competition Outline:

Date:

August 13-23, 2012

Venue:

Grand Palais Lille, Lille, France

Organizer:

IMSA (International Mind Sports Association)

System Cooperation:

Pandanet Inc.

Competition:

Men’s Individual / Women’s Individual / Pair Go / Team of 3 players / Youth

Schedul:

August	10:00	14:30	17:30
13 (Mon)		Men’s / Women’s Individual Round 1
14 (Tue)	Men’s / Women’s Individual Round 2	Men’s / Women’s Individual Round 3
15 (Wed)	Men’s / Women’s Individual Round 4	Men’s / Women’s Individual Round 5
16 (Thu)	Men’s / Women’s Individual Semi-Final	Men’s / Women’s Individual Finals
17 (Fri)	Teams Round 1	Teams Round 2
18 (Sat)	Teams Round 3	Teams Round 4	Teams Round 5
19 (Sun)	Teams Semi-Final	Teams Final (13:30 Teams 3/4 Place)
20 (Mon)	Pair Go / Youth Round 1	Pair Go / Youth Round 2
21 (Tue)	Pair Go / Youth Round 3	Pair Go / Youth Round 4
22 (Wed)	Pair Go / Youth Round 5	Pair Go / Youth Semi-Final
23 (Thu)	Pair Go / Youth 3/4 Place	12:00 Pair Go / Youth Final

Live Broadcast:

Pandanet will make reports from the games.
Live Broadcasts

Photo:

Click Here.

official website:

Here is the official website of the 2nd World Mind Sports Games.

The 37th Gosei is being broadcast live on the IGS server.

Defending champion is Hane Naoki Gosei and challenger is Iyama Yuta Tengen. The time limit is four hours each.

Schedule:

• The first game: June 28rd (Thu).
  Iyama Yuta won, B+Resign
• The second game: July 13th (Fri).
  Iyama Yuta won, W+Resign
• The third game: July 23th (Mon).
  Iyama Yuta won, B+Resign

Iyama Yuta won the Gosei title with three straight wins!

Pandanet-IGS will braodcast games from the European Pair Go Championship, which is played on the weekend 2nd to 3rd of June in Lyon.

The top pair will be invited to the 23th International Amateur Pair Go Championship.

Panda-Tetsuki is now also available on Google Play

You can now watch the progress of your rating on Pandanet-IGS on a rating graph.

Note that a flash player is required.

Christian Pop

Cornel Burzo

Ion Florescu

We are pleased to announce that three very strong players from Europe, Cornel Burzo, Ion Florescu and Cristian Pop, are going to teach Go for Pandanet users. Every month from September to November, 30 users (10 users for each teacher—90 users in total) can take an Internet Go lesson for free!

Apply for the November Lessons

Condition of application

• Being a Pandanet user
• Being a well-manner player
• (Please play on the latest version of GoPanda or Panda-Tetsuki.)

How to take a lesson

1. Apply from the application form below. (The deadline for November is Novmeber 2nd, GMT time)
2. Pandanet will email the winners by November 8th. (If you don’t receive any emails by November 8th, it means you are not selected this time.)
3. We will inform the winners of the date, time and teacher. (You cannot select a teacher.)
4. The game time is 45 minutes for playing and 15 minutes for review. (If you don’t log in by the designated time, the time loss will be deducted from your playing time. If you are late more than 20 minutes, you cannot take the lesson.)
5. The review will be conducted by the chat function.

Schedule

Note that the times are in GMT, please make sure to check the correct time where you live.

Apply for the November Lessons

Total amount raised: 398,148 yen
(Pandanet users : 368,900 yen, American Go Association 29,248 yen)

All funds will be transferred to the victims through the Chamber of Commerce and Industries Youth Section in the disaster prefectures.

We offer our sincere thanks to everyone who supported our disaster donation.

With 300 top players from 30 countries, the Pandanet Go European Team Championship is the strongest European tournament ever played. All the games are going to be played on IGS. To watch them, you just need to create an account on IGS , download GoPanda , and log on to IGS.

Keep an eye on the schedule to make sure you don’t miss anything.

The registration for the Pandanet Go European Tournament is now open. If you play in the tournament, please register as soon as possible.

The Pandanet IGS Website is now open!
It is still being worked on, so check back frequently for updates.